Mon 11 December 2023: A strange incident occurred on a beach in Hakodate, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, triggering conspiracy theories tied to the country’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, which made headlines after treated water from it was dumped into the Pacific Ocean. On Thursday morning, December 7, thousands of tonnes of dead fish, […]
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Mon 04 December 2023: Air pollution is currently the most important environmental health risk factor in Europe, the European Union (EU) environment agency warned in a report published on Friday. “Air pollutant concentrations in 2021 remained well above the levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its air quality guidelines,” said the European […]
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Sun 03 December 2023: According to estimates, nearly 216 million people worldwide will be forced to migrate by 2050 due to drought-related factors such as water scarcity, rising sea levels, crop loss, and excessive population growth. Experts note that the regions most affected will be the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East, where meteorological […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: Alarming new data, issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday, shows a significant rise in the risk of coastal flooding, Xinhua reported. Over the past two decades, sea level rise has already increased the flood risk for 14 million people in coastal areas. This risk is expected to […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: With the COP28 climate summit set to start on Thursday, African scientists and young people are urging leaders to transition the African continent from relying on fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy. In an open letter to African heads of state and governments released in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday, […]
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Mon 27 October 2023: Twenty four people have been killed in lightning strikes in different parts of Gujarat during widespread unseasonal rainfall in the state, an official said Monday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah condoled the deaths due to bad weather and lightning in various cities of Gujarat on Sunday and said the local administration […]
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A satellite image of the world’s largest iceberg, named A23a, seen in Antarctica on November 15, 2023. | European Union/Copernicus Sentinel-3/Handout/Reuters Sat 25 October 2023: The largest iceberg in the world, which was formerly a part of Antarctica, is drifting away from the continent and has drawn attention from scientists worldwide. In 1986, the […]
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Wed 22 October 2023: National Treasury has announced that South Africa has signed bilateral loan agreements with the World Bank, German state-owned development and investment bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support South Africa’s Just Energy Transition. The concessional financing includes a loan of some $1 billion from the […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: The world’s emissions-cutting pledges are nowhere near enough to curb the effects of climate change, with Earth on track for warming a potentially catastrophic 2.9C (5.2F) this century, the United Nations has warned. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s annual Emissions Gap report, published on Monday, assesses countries’ promises to tackle climate change against […]
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Mon 20 October 2023: A study conducted by the charity Oxfam International has shown a shocking inequality in carbon emissions: five billion people, or the richest 1% of the world’s population, contribute twice as much to carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds. In order to address these discrepancies in the fight against climate change, the […]
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